Word: habits
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When he met with China's leaders during Nixon's first term, writes Kissinger, "we developed between us a habit of candor, honesty and long-range thinking." It was this, he adds, that became "the key to the Chinese-American relationship at a point when few concrete results were achievable and our bonds depended on intangibles. Our ties were cemented not by formal agreements but by a common assessment of the international situation." In two long talks with Mao in 1973, Kissinger helped solidify those ties...
KILLER SALT screams the book cover from a huge display of volumes with titles like Shake the Salt Habit!, Cooking Without a Grain of Salt and Halt! No Salt. These days they are selling in the the hundreds of thousands...
...against salt (or rather, the sodium that is in salt) has been accumulating steadily. In the mid-1970s, in response to public outcry and Government and medical criticism, manufacturers stopped adding it to baby food. An over-salted infancy, it was thought, could be the start of a lifelong habit. For decades, cutting down on salt has been a primary medical treatment for the control of hypertension. More important, an extraordinary statistical connection has been found between the amount of salt that a population consumes and its incidence of hypertension...
...Brideshead Revisited, Life on Earth and the National Geographic special The Sharks-shows that have brought PBS fresh prestige, ec static reviews and record-breaking ratings. The pool of shows that will attract audiences (and potential subscribers) looks to be drying up just when PBS is be coming a habit for millions of new viewers. "Our audiences have never been greater, and our programs have never been better," claims Christensen. "It is not a coincidence that this year also represents the highest level of federal funding we've ever had. The two are closely tied...